Specialty label and packaging solutions provider CCL Industries has agreed to acquire privately held companies Eukerdruck and Pharma Druck CDM (Euker) for approximately $31m including its debt. The two companies have common shareholders ...
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For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 31 March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has ...
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Solar Frontier Americas, the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that the firm's solar modules have been ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to 26 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $101.1m, up 7.4% on $94.1m last quarter (a third ...
The design for Apple’s A11 chip – the one intended for use on next year’s iPhone 8 – is already being finalised, apparently. That’s according to a report by technology industry news site DigiTimes, which ...
For first-quarter 2016, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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Commercial Vehicle Group announced, that due to pending negotiations with the hourly employees' union representative, it has decided to consolidate its North American seat production into two North American facilities and stop seat ...
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Moncler announced Wednesday that it will no longer publish first and third quarter interim reports to align with a new policy of the European Union being implemented by Italy. On February 15, the Italian legislature issued a Transparency ...
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Performance Sports Group Ltd. swung to a net loss in the fiscal third quarter ended February 29 as expected due to a precipitous drop in baseball and softball sales, retail bankruptcies and the impact of currency exchange rates on its ...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 29 February), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $2.92m, down 36% on $4.6m a year ago but only 2% on $2.96m last quarter. "We have made good ...
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Notebook-related IC suppliers expect to see revenues grow 10-15% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016 prior to a major pick-up in the third quarter, according to industry sources. Orders for notebook-use ICs staged a slight rebound ...
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Dunelm's revenue for its third quarter (ending 2nd April) grew by 5.9% to £229m, and total like-for-like (LFL) growth (combining LFL stores and home delivery) increased by 1.1%. Sales performance in the quarter reflected strong ...
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TreeHouse Foods’ subsidiary Bay Valley Foods is planning to close spoonable dressings production facility in Ayer, Massachusetts. The company is planning to stop production in the first half of 2017, while the full closure of the ...
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Ford has invested $170m at its Silverton Assembly plant in Pretoria, South Africa to manufacture new Ford Everest and Ford Ranger. The American car-maker says that this investment will create about 1200 jobs in Ford South Africa and in ...
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